Recipes

It’s great to have a salad made with ingredients that are in season. One of my favorite salads starts with just 3 ingredients: spinach, sliced fresh strawberries, sliced green onion. Like most salads the exact amounts are not important (you might like a few more […]

I’ve wanted to try making sweet potato biscuits since I tasted one at a farmer’s market. This is a great way to use extra sweet potatoes. I’ve been growing sweet potatoes for the last 3 years. The yield gets better every year but I supplement our […]

If you haven’t heard about bone broth yet, you probably will soon. It is one of those very old nutritional ideas that is enjoying fresh attention. The terms broth and stock are often used interchangeably and you can find different definitions depending on where you […]

I believe it was Garrison Keiler who said, “July is the only time of year when country people lock our cars in the church parking lot, so people don’t put squash on the front seat. I used to think that was a joke.” Last year […]

This is my mom’s homemade noodle recipe. She grew up during the Great Depression and learned how to really stretch resources. Take the leftover chicken or turkey carcass and put it in a stock pot, crock pot or pan big enough that you can cover […]

Ever feel like you have a pantry full of staples and a refrigerator full of food and yet “there is nothing to eat”? If you have teenagers, no doubt you’ve heard that multiple times, usually accompanied by standing in front of the refrigerator holding the […]

Cornbread growing up was bacon fat melted in a pan, then added to a batter that was 2/3 cornmeal and 1/3 flour, leavening, milk, egg, no sugar. Have I mentioned that my mom grew up in Louisiana? When low fat eating became the “correct” way […]

Husband discovered this recipe years ago and I liked it so much that I included it in our private family cookbook first compiled in 1999. PrintHam, Bean, Bow-tie pasta soup Number of servings: 8 Per Serving 342 calories Fat 7 g Carbs 47 g Protein […]

You can find out why we season our own ground meat to make breakfast sausage in my previous post here. When I went in search of recipes I found most had the same ingredients, just in different proportions. I like things mild and not […]